What is a fucked up memory you have from your childhood that you didn't realize was fucked up until you grew older?

Pretty much my whole childhood. My Aunt use to babysit us, she wasn't nice. She made my Mom (her own sister) pay her to keep us. So every day for the first 5 years of my life and after school until I was about 13 I had to deal with this bitch.

She would do shit to us that made no sense but I thought was normal because why would anyone even do that to another person or a child? She was just mean, she would make me eat until I gagged and it would piss her off so she would make me "lay down" for the rest of the day in pitch black room. I remember being so excited to see my mom at the end of the day. I still feel excited to see my mom after a traumatic event and I'm a grown man. It's not like normal people excited though it's the exact same sense of relief I felt as a child.

She use to hold my hands behind my back and let her kids smack me in the face if I got the better of them in a fight. They were always starting shit because they knew they could get me in trouble and I could do nothing to them. She is just shit. I stopped talking to her 4 years ago.

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